Farming Today (Radio 4) obviously speaks to a core audience of people working rurally in agriculture, but it's also a lovely urban listen, tucked up in bed in a half-snooze on a chilly, wet morning with wind rattling the windows.

Even for lazy townies, though, its stories are often highly relevant. Yesterday's programme picked up a National Trust report suggesting that our fondness for processed food threatens the survival of local, seasonal produce. If we yearn for the salty and fatty foods of convenience, presenter Anna Hill suggested, "regional tastes could be made extinct". Hill has a great radio voice: crisp and clear but also, vitally at this early hour, warm and friendly.

We then heard about a project that has seen Nottingham University Hospital Trust link up with local farmers and producers for their food needs. The trust has saved money, and the project has, Hill noted, "literally saved the bacon" of pig farmer Michael Hatton.

"We have had 13 years of making no profit," he explained, adding that he was only two months away from closing the business. Now he and his workers are planning for the future, his sows are happy and only the male pigs have anything to complain about. "It's 100% artificial insemination," he said, "so they don't really have much fun."